[2020] Results for 18th Mini Poll

[Edie]

Shannon wrote: "I see a lot of people are already planning their 2020 reads to fit the prompts :) May I ask what happens to your plans when you buy new books during the year? That's when my plans go out the window..."

Except for the books I buy for my book club, all my reading comes from the library. I love books and, for year, did not live in a library district, so bought lots of books which were moved and moved again in box after box. My bookshelves are overflowing. Now that I live in an area with an awesome library system, I am happy to borrow the books for a few weeks and the send them on to another reader.

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

As someone who sometimes gets Amazon packages she doesn't remember ordering, that first winning prompt entertains me endlessly!

Now for the fun part, to start planning!

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

Shannon wrote: "I see a lot of people are already planning their 2020 reads to fit the prompts :) May I ask what happens to your plans when you buy new books during the year? That's when my plans go out the window..."


My list is always being revised. I recently did a big shifting of moving around a bunch of books, including ones I read and have reported in the weekly challenge threads! For me, planning is a big part of the fun. I try not to plan more than 20 books out but I also try to organize the prompts that don't have many choices. I'm a library person, so things get moved around a lot when I get a book I hadn't planned on and vice versa.

[Johanne]

Pamela, that happens to me with library holds. And I even work at the library...

[Rachel]

I definitely want to set myself a goal (again, didn't do so well with it this year!) of reading more of the books I own. I cheat a bit and end up buying books I intend to read for the challenge on Book Outlet, so they end up becoming owned books. I'm thinking maybe picking a couple of months where the weather is likely to be bad and using those to focus on my own books, and then save library holds for the nicer months when it's easier for me to get to the library.

[Steve]

I started out the year having 149 books on my bookshelf to read, and read 19 of them so far this year. I'm hoping I can get to 26 by the end of the year. While I've only read 12.75% of the books I owned, I've read 16.9% of the pages I owned.

The bulk of the books I own came from library book sales or thrift stores. A large number are also free from The Book Thing in Baltimore.

[Entropia]

I think somewhere in the discussions I've seen list of previous years' prompts, but I can't find it now - can someone point me to the right direction?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

It’s linked in the first post of this thread!

[Entropia]

Thanks, I don't know how I missed that :o

[Shannon SA]

Sadly, where I live, libraries have become virtually, if not physically, extinct. Up until about 3 years ago, there were some very good second hand bookshops,but they have all disappeared. So it's Amazon for Kindle books or our local small Amazon-type online store for physical books

[Nadine in NY]

Where do you live that has no libraries?? How awful

[Pam]

Shannon - That breaks my heart! I can’t imagine living somewhere without a library. Hope you can find the books you want to read!

[Maple]

I'm missing something. I keep going through my 2020 list and comparing it to results, but I keep coming up one prompt short and cannot figure out where I am missing. UGH!

[Kathy]

Could it be the multi week prompt, which counts for two weeks??: Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Manda, feel free to compare it to the list that is posted here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Or check the community spreadsheet for the list as well!

[Ellie]

That happened to me, took me ages to realise I hadn't split up the multi-week prompt!

[Maple]

I have the multi week split. Thanks for the spreadsheet. I’ll compare mine with that.

[Lieke]

Did you add the one that was chosen by the winner of the summer challenge?

[Maple]

Manda wrote: "I have the multi week split. Thanks for the spreadsheet. I’ll compare mine with that."

I think that may have been in (related to Maximilian Hell). I've been so absent this year I didn't realize there was a summer challenge vote/winner. Cool!